Element Width in IE

[ID10T16]

Is it at all possible to gather the element width in IE 6?

I've tried clientWidth, width, and offsetWidth.

They either give me a 0 or nothing at all.

I either need to find the width of the primary table, or the width of a div in the table, but cannot find out how to do it.

Does anyone have any idea how to do this?

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

offsetWidth should work... so perhaps you are implementing it incorrectly. Show us the code you have, and we'll be able to help more.

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[ID10T16]

well, one example would be:

document.getElementById('bodyFF').offsetWidth;

This yields a value of 0.

other unsuccesful methods were (bear in mind some of these were merely flayling arms and hoping to hit something that might accidentally work):

document.getElementById('bodyFF').style.width;
document.getElementById('bodyFF').width;
document.getElementById('bodyFF').style.offsetWidth;


Some of these worked in FF, but none work in IE.

I just need to find a way to determine the width of an element that is NOT static. IE grows the element to fit the content, but it apparently wants to keep the actual size a secret.